Fran Lebowitz Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

• Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Old Things, Culture

• I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Organization, People

• It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Doe, Crafts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.132, Vintage

• Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Cheer, Made

  1978 Metropolitan Life,'Arts'.

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